On Tuesday 29 August 2006 09:23, Matthew Saltzman wrote: >On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Charles Curley wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 03:29:15AM -0700, jdow wrote: >>> From: "Jack Gates" <jlgates@xxxxxxxxxxx> >>> >>> >>> >>> Then we can call ourselves US. The rest of all yawl are well all >>> yawl. >> >> Which is usually spelt "y'all". "Yawl" is a two masted fore-and-aft >> rig sailing vessel. If you ketch the difference. > >Of course, "y'all" used to be vernacular plural for "you", but these > days, "y'all" seems to be second person singular around here and the new > plural form is "all y'all". Maybe over at Clemson, but that usage hasn't made it to North Central WV yet, Matthew. Even that 'yawl' business was a new one for me. Does that mean we're really really behind the times here? >-- > Matthew Saltzman > >Clemson University Math Sciences >mjs AT clemson DOT edu >http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
